What instrument do you prefer?

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 Lonely Progger wrote:

Keyboards! "L'Instrument Maitre " as we say in French.
Honestly when you just think about the musical possibilities, The only instruments that can produce harmony and melody are The Guitar and Keyboards.
And on a Keyboard you've 2 hands on guitare you're limited with one, a guitar has only 4 to 5 scales a keyboard has on average 7.
And a guitar doesn't have all the subtleties of the keyboard crescendo poco poco, tempo primo, Con anima ,Forte and all the other italian words.

The guitar is far more expressive than keyboards ... which of course doesn't mean that musicians can't put emotion into a keyboard solo, far from it. The guitar simply offers more ways to uniquely modify the sound ... consider bending strings, the different ways to create vibrato, palm muting, harmonics, dive bombs/string effects, sliding, tapping (we guitarists *do* have two hands), sustainer, fretless guitars (Vigier), E-Bow ... and even the most basic thing on the guitar (plucking a string) can be done in a million ways (fingers, pick, pick angle, direction, alternate picking, legato, sweeping etc.), whereas on a keyboard it's always more or less the same mechanism picked up by digital sensors.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 18 2008 at 08:48

Poll Question: What instrument do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Keyboards	17	[33.33%]
Guitar	18	[35.29%]
Bass	8	[15.69%]
Drums	4	[7.84%]
Sax	2	[3.92%]
Flute	2	[3.92%]
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